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Carl Hagen memoirs, 1980
Reminiscences of a Norwegian American from Halloway, Minnesota, covering farm and village life in the area up to 1908. Hagen later became an officer of the National City Bank of New York and spent part of his career in Latin America. Part of a larger manuscript. -
Magdalene Preysz Brown papers, 1882-1981
Photocopies of letters and postcards, most sent from Kristiansund to relatives who emigrated and settled in Michigan. A biography of Christoph Preysz (Danish-American) and a Hendrickson (Kvalvog) family history, relatives of Mrs. Brown, are included. English translations are included. -
Amerika (newspaper) correspondence, 1891-1895
Letters, chiefly to Reverend C. K. Preus, some written by O.M. Kalheim, one of the editors of "Amerika", a secular newspaper that served as an organ for the Norwegian Synod. Correspondents include: Lars O. Thorpe, Bernt Askevold, K.L. Gullibo, Einar B. Christophersen, Johannes Waage, Peder O. Langseth. A St. Olaf College Student from Norway, Jostein Molde, compiled a chronology and summary of the letters, which is in the file. -
American Lutheran Church (Oslo, Norway) biographies, 1961-1964
Data about the persons listed in a commemorative book placed in the Memorial Church established in Oslo by the American Lutheran Church. Many of those honored were first-generation immigrants to the United States from Norway. Some of the biographies include photographs and/or photographic negatives.
Some of the biographies include photographs and all are indexed in the Rowberg Biographical File. -
J. Hart Rosdail papers, 1837-1961
A collection of materials used by a descendent of a "Slooper" family in compiling the book "The Sloopers: Their Ancestry and Posterity," 1961. Rosdail, a teacher from Elmhurst, Illinois, was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for his world travels. The "NY Times," Nov. 11, 1973, published a story about him and his experiences in the far corners of the world.
Includses:- Biographical information; Miscellaneous clippings; translation of document re: stop in Madeira of Restauration; Sloopers: Family Indexes, Kendall, N.Y. Settlement map, Monroe County history; Slooper Miscellany; Norse American Centennial Items. Includes talk by Ralph A. Kimble (1931), lunch menu for Pres. Coolidge at Nicollet Hotel (1925); Fox Valley & Ottawa, Ill. Items; Colonna, Frank: "The Sloopers" (1971); Ole and Mary Aasen Family; Jane Atwater papers; Ewers family; John Johnson, Slooper; Ikdal Family correspondence; Rosdail family; Slogvik family; Stangeland Family; and Vaaland Family.
- Old Letters (1837, transcribed letter from Ole Johnsonl 1885, from John Laugman (sp?); Bakkevig, Erik. Correspondence; Bakkevig, Erik. Genealogical charts; correspondence 1930s-1940s; correspondence 1950.
- Correspondence files (1951-1960s)
- Slooper notebooks, 1961
Slogvik Family
Rosdail, J. Hart
Sloopers, Family Indexes
Colona, Frank
Atwater, Jane
Sloopers, Miscellany
Aasen, Ole T
Larson, Lars
Aasen, Lawrence O.
Velde, Faltin
Ewers, Jesse E.
Ewers, John Canfield
Ewers, John Ray
Bush, Stephen Hayes
Rendahl, Junald
Atwater, John
Geilane, Lars Larsen
Atwater, Margaret Allen Larson
Johnson, John
Johnson, Nancy P.
Gaut, Anna Mae
Aasen, Mary Christinia Lein
Rosdail Family
Jacobson, Ray K.
Stangeland Family
Stangeland, Andreas Kniudsen
Grange, Jessie Cary
Stangland, Benjamin Franklin
Ewers, Anna Hart
Velde, Elida
Larson, Martha G.
Steine, Johannes Jacobson
Vaaland Family
Vaaland, Svend Larson
Bakkevig, Erik -
Olga Wagbo local history, 1982
"Reconstructed History of Early Immigrants from Norway to East Jordan," a 47-page account of some 30 families who settled in Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the years 1880-1929. -
Ole Halvorson Uvaas letter, 1859
Transcript copy of a letter and translation of a letter from a Winchester, Wisconsin, resident to his brother in Telemark. A letter from the donor and a memorandum are included. -
Clarence E. Skoien clippings, 1947
Biographical information about a minister who at the time of his death was serving Trinity Lutheran Church, Madison, Wisconsin. Skoien served in both World Wars, receiving many decorations. -
Amanda Lien Rachie autobiography, 1943-1949
"Early Minnesota Family History," an account written by the granddaughter of Nils Gunnarson Lien, who emigrated from Vang, Valdres, in 1852 and came to Warsaw Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota in 1857. Amanda Rachie was married to Elias Rachie, a Minneapolis attorney and writer.
Topics: Wanamingo and Dr. Just Christian Gronvold; Native Americans stealing freshly baked bread; and keeping a can of salmon on hand in case the minister paid a home visit. Added June 27, 2013: memoir (untitled), most likely written by Elias Rachie, lines starting with, "Both my father and mother were born in Nordfjord, Norway" (46 pages typescript, ca. 1943). Topics: 1871 ocean crossing; passengers Rasmus Wisness and Rasmus Anderson; wagon train to Yellow Medicine County; diphtheria and funerals; life in a dugout near Granite Falls, Minn.; Rev. Ole Nelson Bergh sleeping on their table; 1880 blizzard; exposure to smallpox; 1873 blizzard; school days and boxing against a boy; prairie fires; alcoholism and temperance; Rev. Ole Lokensgard; living among the settlers and work done by women; 1888 blizzard; and hail storm covering the ground 7 inches deep: and "My Early Youth" (18 pages typescript, n.d., ca. 1940s). Topics: living in small, framed house; Christmastime (preparation, cooking and baking, and traditions, including Julebukking); school (mice problems, spelling bee, and playtime); dresses and hand-me-down clothes; homemade apple jelly in small, wood pails; shopping at the Wangs country general store; gathering eggs from the hen house; "shoulder horses" to carry pails of water; parlor use in home; threshing time; spinning wheel and making balls of yarn; sledding in Red Wing; and first bicycle. -
Rose Quam papers, 1981
Copies of miscellaneous letters and papers concerning early immigrants to Illinois, chiefly Ole Quam and Ole Hetletvedt Olson, together with information about a Norwegian Center at Norway, Illinois, and the Norwegian Immigration Sesquicentennial, 1975.